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Old July 22, 2008, 12:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Louis CK Tour Dates

On the chance that he's probably too busy to post these himself:

7/25 - 7/27 - Iveagh Theatre - Dublin, IRE
7/29 - 8/08 - Soho Arts Theatre - London, UK
8/15 - 8/16 - Pleasance - Edinburgh, UK
8/19 - 8/23 - Soho Arts Theatre - London, UK
8/24 - Gota Lejon - Stockholm, SWE
9/03 - 9/06 - The Punchline - San Francisco, CA
9/12 - University of Richmond - Richmond, VA
9/19 - The Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
9/20 - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom - Hampton Beach, NH
9/26 - Orpheum Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
9/27 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV
9/28 - Largo - Los Angeles, CA AST Thread
10/3 - Bergen Performing Arts Center - Englewood, NJ
10/4 - Paramount Center for the Arts - Peekskill, NY
10/7 - The Pageant - St. Louis, MO
10/9 - Wharton Center for Performing Arts - East Lansing, MI
10/10 - Grand Valley State University - Allendale, MI
10/11 - Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box - Atlantic City, NJ
10/16 - The Music Mill - Indianapolis, IN
10/18 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
10/24 - Parker Playhouse - Fort Lauderdale, FL
10/31 - 11/1 - Governor's - Levittown, NY
11/7 - Capitol Theatre - Columbus, OH
11/8 - Palace Theatre - Greensburg, PA
11/14 - Vogue Theatre - Vancouver, BC
11/15 - Newmark Theatre - Portland, OR
11/21 - Warner Theatre - Washington, DC
11/22 - Grand Opera House - Wilmington, DE
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Old August 9, 2008, 12:59 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Well well well.

Me, Marty Crimestick and Otto Wall-E flew over to London to see Louis this Tuesday and he was a vital part of one of the best hours in my life. Louis, not one of the other jerks.

The Soho theatre was a small and intimate venue, everything was just great.

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Re: Louis CK Tour Dates

A show has been added for Sept. 25 at the Grove of Anaheim.
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Well well well.

Me, Marty Crimestick and Otto Wall-E flew over to London to see Louis this Tuesday and he was a vital part of one of the best hours in my life. Louis, not one of the other jerks.

The Soho theatre was a small and intimate venue, everything was just great.

Yeah.
Crazy mike is not lying! A grand time was had by all. We also got the reason why the Stockholm gig was cancelled. I assumed Louis himself had cancelled it, but apparently the organizers did because of low ticket sales - something like 100 tickets sold, almost a month before the gig, was not enough. Talk about cold feet!
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I'm really hoping that by some miracle, the Spokane show is still happening.
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Re: Louis CK Tour Dates

October 17th - Pageant Theater - St. Louis, MO

November 6th - Town Hall - New York, NY
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A show has been added for Sept. 25 at the Grove of Anaheim.
Looks like this is now at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. (With Todd Barry, according to the Coach House site!)
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Looks like this is now at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. (With Todd Barry, according to the Coach House site!)
I won't be doing that one, actually.
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I won't be doing that one, actually.
Aw, too bad. Will you be at Largo a few days later? I'm trying to decide which one to go to.

(I know your site says you're only doing Vegas and Phoenix that week, but thought I'd check anyway.)
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I'm just praying for an Oklahoma City/Norman date.

I was too broke earlier this year to make the trek down to Dallas and am quite sad about it.
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I'm planning on writing a more in-depth review of last night's show at the Coach House, but for now, let me urge anyone in the path of Louie's tour to be sure to attend this show. It's incredible that he has already built such a solid hour.

In the immediate future, this means Phoenix tonight, Vegas tomorrow, Largo on Sunday. Don't miss it.
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Old September 27, 2008, 2:48 AM   #13 (permalink)
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"Louis C.K. Hilarious" Review | The Coach House | San Juan Capistrano, CA | Thursday, September 25, 2008 | By Itslikeimsayin

In sports, there are journeymen and then there are the superstars. Rarely does the former evolve into the latter. Once you've been in the league for a while without being hugely successful, your script is written, and even though you might go on to enjoy a prolonged, decent career, you retire having never been mentioned among the game's elite.

So it's a good thing that Louis C.K. is a comedian, not an athlete.

After nearly 25 years doing comedy, C.K. has evolved over the last four or five years to undoubtedly become one of the best comics in the world. For the first 15 or 20 years of his career, C.K. admittedly stuck to the same basic one-hour set he had developed throughout his formative years in the business. But he's now working on his third all-new one-hour special in the last three years, and after catching the "Louis C.K. Hilarious" tour at San Juan Capistrano's Coach House Thursday night, I can assure you Louis is in the midst of yet another MVP-caliber season.

C.K.'s transformation occurred when he shifted his focus from simple joke writing to looking within himself and sharing his personal experiences through the filter of his darkly comedic mind. The beauty of Louis' darkness is that he uses it for good, where lesser comics might use it as a dour persona that results in meandering rants against society. C.K. is more akin to Jim Gaffigan After Dark. He takes ordinary life experiences and conveys them with an injection of anger and profanity that's always in good fun rather than trying to teach anyone a lesson.

Whereas his last two specials – 2007's "Shameless" on HBO and "Chewed Up," which premieres on Showtime October 4 – honestly chronicled Louis' home life with a wife and two small children, a good portion of "Louis C.K. Hilarious" deals with the ramifications of being in the middle of a divorce. Don't expect jokes about his ex-wife, however. Instead, Louis takes the high road and finds humor in the real-life experiences he and his daughters have had and the difficulty of fathering two small girls in a SoHo apartment. He describes how his oldest daughter has had a particularly rough year, even getting bitten by a pony. C.K. suggests ponies only exist to entertain little girls, and that getting bitten by one "is like getting raped by Santa Claus."

Because so much of C.K.'s output over the last few years has been based on his family, he smartly disarms the crowd about his divorce within the first few minutes of his set. When the announcement that he's in the midst of divorce elicits the inevitable sympathetic "awww"s from the crowd, Louis snaps back saying that you shouldn't feel sorry for people who are getting divorced. He explains that people get divorced because they weren't happy. If they started forcing happy couples to get divorced, that, he says, would be sad.

"Louis C.K. Hilarious" isn't confined to family matters, however. The highlight of the entire set came about halfway through (C.K. has said he'll sometimes do his best material early in his set to challenge himself to close strong) and was introduced in conjunction with a mention of the U.S. banking crisis. He went on to say that maybe we need a few years of having donkeys with buckets on their sides carrying stuff around, because no one seems to appreciate how good we have it in 2008. The bit goes on to cover familiar topics like air travel and cell phone use, but never does it seem clichéd when conveyed through C.K.'s delivery. Instead, it's flat-out hilarious.

No Louis C.K. performance would be complete without him stretching the boundaries of potentially offensive material for the faint of heart, and "Hilarious" delivers by delving into the thoughts running through the head of an old Chinese woman Louis spotted on the street, the correct intonation to change the word "Jew" from a descriptor to an insult, and him giving momentary consideration to using a hand dryer in a public restroom that was out of toilet paper. Again, however, never does Louis try to shock the audience or come across as "the raunchy comic." Instead, he obviously knows the things he's saying are often ridiculous, and they're delivered in a manner that indicates it's all meant in good fun.

Getting back to the sports analogy, three great seasons does not a Hall of Famer make. But with "Shameless," "Chewed Up" and now "Hilarious" over the last three years, Louis C.K. has set a new standard for dedication and hard work in comedy, and as long as he continues on this path for the foreseeable future, he will surely go down as one of the all-time comedic giants. Whatever the future holds, he's definitely no longer a journeyman. As far as I'm concerned, he is comedy's No. 1 star.
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Old October 5, 2008, 8:12 AM   #14 (permalink)
 
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First of all: "Woo!"

Second: I've got something of a situation. I bought two tickets for the October 18th Chicago gig the day they went on sale because that's the day my college's fall break starts and my college runs a shuttle to Chicago at the beginning of breaks. But, the person I was going to go with who lives there now can't. So I have an extra ticket and no place to stay that night, except maybe the airport. Would anyone who hasn't bought a ticket yet want to get one in exchange for letting me stay at their place that night? Or is that weird...
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Louis CK did 80 minutes last night in Chicago, and then did a 10 minute encore where he took requests.
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Louis describes how Denis Leary stole his "I'm an Asshole" bit and became a huge star. Really fucking great.

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I just got an email about this: Louis CK at the Wiltern March 27.

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10:00 am.
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Old March 15, 2009, 10:20 AM   #18 (permalink)
 
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Holy shit. I saw Louis at the Orpheum in Boston for his CD recording. It was pretty unbelievable. This guy just keeps getting better and better. He makes fun of people for overusing the word genius, but I'm going to have to say Louis is definitely a genius. He has so much new material and all of it is gold.
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Old March 22, 2009, 7:34 AM   #19 (permalink)
 
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I didn't know where to put this, so I'm putting it here.

Louis just posted some stuff on his website. One of them is an account of doing a show for the USO which is one of the 78 greatest things in the universe today. God bless Louis CK.

http://www.louisck.net/2009/03/uso-b...t-day-two.html

Special bonus: if you ever have doubts about this thing you do, this ... "comedy," there's some insight in here about what comedy CAN do that hardly anything else can accomplish. So chew on that too.
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Yeah, I loved that. Fascinating read.
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